Santa Shopped Online This Year

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday January 1, 2006 @08:44AM from the digital-elves dept.

An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet is reporting on another blockbuster year for online shopping. Online shopping was up almost 30 percent over last year." From the article: " Clothing was the top seller in terms of dollar amount, at $5.3 billion total, up 42 percent from last year's revenue, the report said. Computer hardware and peripherals showed the most growth, 126 percent, at $4.8 billion. Consumer electronics was the second fastest growing category, garnering $4.8 billion, up 109 percent. People spent $3 billion on books online, up 66 percent, and $2.3 billion on products in the toys/video games category of hardware and software, a drop of 9 percent from last year, the study found. "

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That's Odd... by scheming · 2006-01-01 09:01 · Score: 5, Funny

I got nothing at all for christmas this year... :(
Re:Clothing, eh? by Anonymous Coward · 2006-01-01 09:08 · Score: 1, Funny

Sucks... guess there won't be anymore catfights in Victoria Secret.
Re:Clothing, eh? by nizo · 2006-01-01 09:09 · Score: 2, Funny

Luckily I am guessing that many of the online clothing purchases consisted of about 9 square inches of actual fabric with lots of elastic straps. At least thats what I asked for from Santa before they threw me out of the mall anyway.

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